dol (first birthday)

2011 | USA | 11 mins | DramaDirected by Andrew Ahn

Nick is a gay Korean-American man living in Koreatown, Los Angeles with his partner Brian and their dog Chloe. When Nick attends his baby nephew's 'dol,' a traditional Korean first birthday party, he finds himself yearning for a life just out of reach.

Director's Bio:ANDREW AHN is a Korean-American filmmaker born and raised in Los Angeles. His short film "Dol (First Birthday)" premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and has screened at numerous other festivals and venues around the world, including the Lincoln Center, REDCAT, and the Los Angeles Film Festival. The film received the Outfest Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Short Film and the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival Jury Award for Best Narrative Short.

​Ahn participated in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab, and the Film Independent Directing Lab with his feature screenplay SPA NIGHT, currently in post-production. With his producing team, Ahn raised over $62,000 on Kickstarter to fund production. The project also received a Sundance Institute Cinereach Feature Film Fellow grant, Panavision New Filmmaker grant, and FilmLA grant. Ahn is an alum of Film Independent’s Project Involve and has promoted diversity in the arts by mentoring youth filmmakers through programs like Pacific Arts Movement’s Reel Voices and Outfest’s OutSet. He graduated from Brown University and received an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).​

paper wrap fire

2013 | USA | 13 mins | Drama Directed by Raymond Yeung

A Chinese teenager is left alone in a Community Center where he encounters a handsome man which leads to a discovery that shatters his innocence.

Director's Bio:RAYMOND YEUNG'S first feature film, CUT SLEEVE BOYS premieredat the Rotterdam International Film Festival. The film won Best Feature at the Outfest Fusion Festival, and a Best Actor Award at the Madrid Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.Raymond’s feature script FLYING COLOURS was recently selected to participate in the Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus Script Station.

ordinary family

2013 | South Korea | 23 mins | DramaDirected by Hyun-Ju Lee

Su-young is a lesbian who plans to go on the first vacation with her girlfriend, Young-mi. But the day before the two leave for vacation, Su-young receives the news about her father's hospitalization. She reluctantly pushes back a day and goes to visit her parents. Will she be able to safely go on the vacation with her girlfriend?​​Director's Bio:LEE, HYUN-JU1981 Born on Aug. 4th in Seoul2010 Graduated from Dankook University2014 Graduated from Korean Academy of Film Arts, Department of DirectingFilmography2005 Private Lesson, DV 6mm, 18min, Director, Screenplay2007 Marry me,HD, 18 min 29 sec,Director, Screenplay2010 DISTANCE, HD, 19 min 10 sec,Director, ScreenplayAwards2010 대단한단편영화제 (영화제 영문명을 찾을 수가 없네요)2010 Indie Forum, Queer Movie Awards

FU377

2014 | UK | 5 mins | DramaDirected by Neelu Bhuman

Basic dignity of queer people in India is under attack, yet again. The scorching IPC Section 377 is re-unleashed to police to criminalise “gay sex” in India. While the law and the Supreme Court dated themselves back a few hundred years, an adorable Indian mother has her knowledge of “gay sex” in mint condition, wheeling out a tidbit or two for her heartbroken queer daughter in an effort to cheer her up. The pair are shocked into action by the Supreme Court’s latest rejection.

​Director's Bio:Interaction Designer by profession, filmmaker by passion, NEELU BHUMAN loves to creatively explore socio-political topics that are intimate and personal to her. Family in Frame is her first experimental documentary which has screened across India and the USA including LA Outfest. As a designer, she is keen on discovering a fitting medium to tell her stories, FU377 as an animation was borne out of her fear of bad acting and her interest in examining and exposing injustices through aesthetically stunning comedy without a large budget.

coming home

2014 | USA/Taiwan | 26 mins | DramaDirected by Steven Liang

Gay high school couple--Ivan, a well-behaved local Taiwanese, and Eric, a rebellious international student from the US, take a road trip down the most dangerous highway in Taiwan.Their trip is cut short when Eric reveals that he must return home after graduation, forcing Ivan to confront his darkest demons. (Currently in post-production)​​Director's Bio:STEVEN LIANG'S mission as a filmmaker is to humanize underrepresented communities, while constructing works that combine unexpected elements of story and character. Steven has apprenticed at many prestigious production companies, including Participant Media and Justin Lin's Universal-based Barnstorm Pictures. Steven has received grants & fellowships from Fulbright-Hays (Taiwan), The Getty Foundation, and most recently, AbelCine for excellence in non-fiction filmmaking. Currently, he is an MFA Film Directing Candidate at UCLA Film School, where he was the recipient of the Mary Pickford Award and twice the winner of the Carl David Memorial Fellowship for the positive representation of LGBT characters on screen. Growing up in the blue-collar town of Rosemead, CA with Chinese immigrant parents, Steven's aesthetic is distinctively gritty and multi-faceted. He is passionate about social issues and strives to create socially responsible media for a millennial generation.

draft day

2013 | Thailand | 10 mins | DocumentaryDirected by Josh Kim

In Thailand, all males turning 21 must participate in the military draft lottery. Drawing a black card grants exemption. Drawing a red card results in two years of military service. DRAFT DAY follows two girls, who were born as males, as they participate in the drafting process.

​Director's Bio:JOSH KIMis a Korean-American filmmaker whose debut feature, How to Win at Checkers (Every Time), premiered in the Berlinale Panorama in 2015.

Born in Texas, Kim started production as an intern at NPR in Washington DC and later moved to CNN in Hong Kong.

In 2010, he worked as an Associate Producer on the Korean remake of John Woo's A Better Tomorrow. He has since directed videos for Google, UEFA and Elite Models.

Recently, he founded a micro-documentary web-series project called Google Glass Diaries which has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company.

Brokeback that ass up

A.W. LEE (co-director) is a Toronto rap musician, audio producer, video editor, and PhD. His music videos have also screened at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival. His work has also screened at the Ottawa Inside Out Festival, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Kingston ReelOut Film Festival, and Dirty Looks Film Festival in NYC. A.W. tours as ManChyna while completing his dissertation on performance, queerness, and Asian diaspora.

SONYA REYNOLDS (co-Director) is a Toronto-based artist working in photography, video and textiles. Her work uses creativity and humor to explore alternative histories and marginalized communities. Reynolds’ work documents activities or personalities in the Toronto queer community. These videos have premiered at Inside Out queer film festival in Toronto, won awards at REEL Pride in Winnipeg, and have been the focus of a visual arts exhibition at Videofag Cinema and Performance Lab. A graduate of Concordia University's Communications Studies program, with a specialization in Film, she has also studied photography at Ryerson University. Her short videos have screened videos at Mix NYC (New York Queer Experimental Festival), the Asian American Film Festival (Los Angeles), Inside Out (Toronto and Ottawa), the Queer Film Festival of Vancouver and the Reelout Festival (Kingston), REEL Pride (Winnipeg).